A VTuber Autumn Community Event – September 21 – 28

Welcome to Camp Amberpines, a one-week VTuber gathering focused on creativity, community, and cozy fall vibes. Hosted by Melody Chikayuki, this event brings streamers and creators together for a full week of fun—games, tournaments, karaoke, contests, TTRPGs, and more.

Campers are placed into small “Cabins” (teams of up to 3) to compete in friendly events, win points, and maybe even take home some silly keepsakes. Whether you're joining big streams, running your own collabs, or just here for contests, Camp Amberpines is here to celebrate togetherness, liminality/liminal spaces, and a positive space to create. It may be Autumn in The Northern Hemisphere, but every VTuber/PNGTuber around the world is welcome!!!

✅ Open to all 18+ VTubers and PNGTubers
✅ Events run daily Starting September 21st–28th
✅ Hosted on a private Discord server
✅ Twitch-friendly content only
✅ Community prizes & artist commissions
✅ Watch Parties
✅ New friendships to be made

🍂 Applications are open now. Come get lost in the woods with us. 🍂
Click here to fill out an application today

📝 More info, rules, and application links are available in our Discord and below.
Click here for our Camp's Code of Conduct & Rules
You can download a copy of the blank Vtuber Consent sheet by clicking here

📺 [Watch The Official Camp Stream (Embedded Player below]

Costume Contest

Art & Writing Contests

Karaoke Contests

🧥 Costume Contest – Rules & Info 🎭

As part of Camp Amberpines, we’re hosting a Costume Contest for VTubers and PNGTubers! This is your chance to showcase a fall-themed, spooky, or surreal design that fits our camp’s core aesthetic: Liminal Spaces.

🔥 Contest Guidelines:

• Theme: Your costume should reflect liminality — whether visual, emotional, or narrative. That could mean:

  • Visuals inspired by liminal spaces (abandoned campgrounds, flickering malls, midnight gas stations).

  • Character designs that feel caught between identities (child/adult, human/monster, hero/villain).

  • Emotionally “stuck” figures — a magical girl who never grew up, a wanderer who lost time, a smiling mask that doesn’t come off.

• Formats Accepted: PNGs, VTuber model renders, illustrations, or character sheets.

• Must be your own model and or design you have the rights to use commercially.

• Collaborators (e.g., riggers/artists) must be credited, or where you purchased from if off sites like booth.

• Submission Deadline: September 26th 2025, 11:59pm PDT/UTC-7

• Winners will be selected based on creativity, use of theme, and originality.

🎁 Winners receive community-commissioned keepsakes and permanent showcase on this site post-event.

Information Coming September 21st

Information Coming September 21st

What Is Liminality and Liminal Spaces?

Liminality and Liminal Spaces are the soul of,
Camp Amberpines.

It’s not just abandoned buildings or flickering lights. Liminality is emotional, existential, and narrative. It is the threshold between what you were, and what you are becoming — a place where change, transformation, or disconnection lingers. The 1990s and 1800s are two periods in history that were very deeply liminal.

✦ Liminality Includes:

• Visual liminal spaces: empty parking lots at dusk, foggy trails, schools at night, a blue house in a sea of white houses, an abandoned shopping mall.

• Psychological liminality: feeling detached from your life, no longer who you were but not yet someone new.

• Narrative liminality: magical girls out of time, forgotten memories, dreams that almost feel real.

• Social liminality: being online in silence, being “part of” but not truly “with.”
  
  

✦ Think of it like:

• When a face is familiar but unplaceable.

• When an action lingers in the silence after.

• The breath between waking and sleep.

• Alone, but not peaceful.

• Siblinghood strained through distance or loss.

Liminality is the Liminal Space between words, the hallway between choices, the breath you hold before something changes.

🍂 Autumn is the Most Liminal Season 🍂
Autumn is called Fall because it is the fall of time. Nature begins to die. Rain and snow meet in quiet conflict, creating atmospheric anomalies. The scent of decay lingers in the air, and though we may not speak of it, we all feel it.

If winter is the season of death—when the world sleeps—then autumn is the slow, conscious unraveling before the end. It is no coincidence Halloween falls here.

And yet, we remain calm. We carve pumpkins. We roast squash—plants that flourish in soil turned cold and hollow. We wear sweaters, light candles, and pretend we do not see the world dimming.

Autumn is not death. It is the space before.
The quiet between.
The most liminal place in all of time.
Where everything falls.